Movie review: Snitch

By News Staff

Posted Feb 22, 2013 7:00 am.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson takes on bad guys, again, but not with his usual brute force. Film critic Leslie James finds good things to say about “Snitch.”

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